class1

Icebreaker/Introductions:

• What is your favorite number? Why?
• John's favorite number

Warm-up with Mobile Apps

• Mobile App: The Equalizer
• Mobile App: Calculate 24
• Flappy Bird and the disposable philospohy
• What is reflector? What is Airplay?

About the Course:

• Why I Wrote It?
• My Philosophy of Mathematics Education
• My Philosophy of Technology
• What I Envision
• Less Is More
• This Is YOUR Class
• Weekly Formats (something about math, something with a tool, you do something with a tool, time to work on projects)
• Syllabus
• Assignments (mobile apps, web 2.0 project, learning tasks, journal reflecting)

Oh Really?
Tom Brokaw - The Internet - 1995
Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (Clifford Stoll, 1996)

More "Entertainment"
Discovering the World Wide Web 1995
Computer Chronicles - 1995
The Classic 90s - The Kids Guide to the Internet
The Internet As It Was - 1996

Working with Wikis

Web 2.0
So What Is Web 2.0? (Post 3, 4, and 5 on your wiki page)

1. Google It
2. Synthesize it
3. Summary
4. Cite it, post your links
5. Identify 5 web 2.0 tools for Education

Knowing the Learner:
Complete the Edutopia Survey
Complete the Discovery Survey
Post your findings on your wiki page
How does this impact you as a learner?


Today's Meet:

• what do your results say about you?
• conducted on Today's Meet

Today's Meet #2
Reaction:
14 Things That Are Obsolete in Classrooms

Ten Things You Use Everyday

Learning Task:
1. Update complete your wiki page
2. Identify how you might be able to use a wiki to support your instruction.
3. Create a plan for using Today's Meet in your classroom.
4. Create a Today's Meet forum and post the link to your wiki page.

Deliverables under class 1:
- Update your wiki page with email, bio, 5 potential web 2.0 tools
- Post heading "How I might use a wiki page in my class"
- Post a lesson plan using Today's Meet (can be in word uploaded to wiki or posted directly on wiki)
- Create a Today's Meet Forum and post it to your wiki page * class discussion transcript if possible*